I eccho others - it's just a shirt. You bought it so wear it. I wear lots of jerseys from Notre Dame and Bayern Munich but don't play for them. No one should care and if they do, they might need a reality check.

First of all, your priorities are wrong, you must SKIP THE WEDDING! If you feel you cannot do that, then attend the wedding WEARING the shirt. (Maybe I'm not the best person to ask for advice!) Simon.

Absoultely wear the shirt. And if someone asks you if you ran the race say "I won my age group" Actually you could have a friend run the race for you in your place. They can wear your bib and chip. Give someone the gift of a free race.

Hey if I had a fast friend, maybe he could B Q for me

NO REFUNDS! WEAR THE SHIRT.

I've faced the same dilemma, and for me the decision was based on the sense of personal accomplishment I associated with the race. For example, I've run many 5ks, so if I DNS at a 5k I'll still wear the shirt. On the other hand, I registered for but never started the Rocky Raccoon 100 mile. I received a really awesome fleece pullover jacket. I've never taken it off the hanger. I wouldn't feel right wearing it since I've never completed that race (or any 100 miler except a 24 hour race). Along the same lines, I registered for but didn't start the Ultracentric 24 hour. I didn't wear the nice technical shirt I received. The following year I completed Ultracentric and now I wear both shirts (they are actually the same design). I don't think it's a huge ethical or moral issue, and I wouldn't judge someone for wearing a shirt for a race that he/she didn't complete. It's a personal question - do I feel that I've earned the right to wear that shirt. On a similar topic, I NEVER wear a race shirt before or during the race. Only after. I'm not superstitious in any other part of my life, but I just can't wear a shirt until after the event.

I would NEVER wear a tech t to mow the grass or wash the car. Waste of a good shirt.

What? You don't like to be as comfortable as you can be when washing the car or mowing grass on a hot summer day? Or do you prefer to do those things shirtless? Beats burying it in storage, which was my point.

I'm a huge Blue Jays fan and often wear a Jays cap in the summer. I don't, however, play for the Jays. One of my favourite t-shirts is actually from a 10k I ran while anemic and dropped out of. I wear it all the time. In an odd coincidence, I actually wound up interviewing the winner of that race on an unrelated topic for a school newspaper while wearing the shirt. It's just a t-shirt.

This is the best answer in this whole thread.

I used to think the finishers T-shirt shall be worn by the finishers (regardless of the race; at least in the olden days, you picked up T-shirt at the finish). Of course, things changed and now they hand out T-shirt BEFORE you actually run it. Why? Because the sponsors want their names seen BEFORE, DURING and AFTER the race. So....if this makes it easy at all for you to wear the T-shirt for the race that you didn't (or won't) run, you are actually doing the sponsors, and race itself for promoting it, some good and its money's worth. Wear it.